2 September 2008
Keno Hill, Yukon

The landscape has changed dramatically in the past week - brilliant fall colours splatter the hillsides as the temperature falls and the days grow shorter. There is generally a frost in the mornings, -4o today, but for a few days now we have had the clearest days of the whole summer and warming to 12o by afternoon - making it very nice to start wrapping up my field work. But the ground at higher elevations has frozen up and the streams are starting to grow their winter coat of ice and this does start to make it more difficult to get about the steep ground.


Only three weeks until I get the holiday with Lynne to visit the other side in Ontario.

But meanwhile I need to escape for a few days and so am planning to visit Dawson City in the next week or so - will keep you up to date - but will not be telling if I find a gold nugget that was missed on the Klondike.